Sir William James Ingram, 1st Baronet (27 October 1847 – 18 December 1924) was a British journalist and Liberal politician who was managing director of ''

The Illustrated London News ''The Illustrated London News'', founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine. The magazine was published weekly for most of its existence, switched to a less freq ...

'' and who sat in the

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in three periods between 1878 and 1895.

Life

Ingram was the son of

Herbert Ingram Herbert Ingram (27 May 1811 – 8 September 1860) was a British journalist and politician. He is considered the father of pictorial journalism through his founding of ''The Illustrated London News'', the first illustrated magazine. He was a ...

and his wife Ann Little, daughter of William Little, of the Manor House,

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, Northamptonshire. His father was the founder of ''The Illustrated London News'', and had also been MP for Boston in Lincolnshire. Ingram was educated at

Winchester College Winchester College is an English Public school (United Kingdom), public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day school, day attendees, in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It wa ...

and

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. He was admitted at the

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on 12 April 1869, and at the

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on 15 January 1870 and was called to the bar at Inner Temple on 18 November 1872. His father and brother died in a shipping accident on

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in 1860 and Ingram eventually took over management of the ''Illustrated London News''. He lived at

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, Surrey and was a J.P. for Surrey and the Cinque Ports, Kent. In 1874, Ingram was elected as MP for

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and held the seat until 1880 when representation was suspended. He won the reconstituted seat in 1885 but lost it in the election of the following year. He regained the seat in 1892 but lost it again three years later in 1895. Ingram was created

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on 9 August 1893. Ingram married in 1874, Mary Eliza Collingwood Stirling, daughter of Australian politician Edward Stirling of 34, Queen's Gardens, Hyde Park, and of Adelaide, South Australia.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886
/ref> His son Herbert succeeded to the baronetcy. Another son was

Collingwood Ingram Collingwood "Cherry" Ingram (30 October 1880 – 19 May 1981), was a British ornithologist, plant collector and gardener, who was an authority on Japanese flowering cherries. Personal life Collingwood Ingram was a son of Sir William Ingram and ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingram, Sir William, 1st Baronet 1847 births 1924 deaths People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English businesspeople 19th-century British newspaper publishers (people) Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1892–1895 People from Westgate-on-Sea